Next week's episodes see Robert (Ryan Hawley) continue to keep a close eye on Rebecca at the hospital, but he's starting to lose hope that she'll ever wake up.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

When Lachlan White (Thomas Atkinson) and Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) join him at the hospital, they soon find themselves at the centre of a commotion as Robert spots that Rebecca's finger has twitched.

Nurses rush into the room as Lachlan watches on in terror, knowing that Rebecca will reveal that he caused the crash if she makes a recovery.

So, is Lachlan's secret in serious danger of being exposed? And how long before he considers murdering Rebecca by tampering with her breathing tube, as teased in Emmerdale's recent trailer?

Emily Head, who plays Rebecca, revealed: "Robert gets very excited about the idea that Rebecca has moved. Robert – more than anyone, I think – wants Rebecca to wake up.

"I think Robert has put all the drama the two of them have faced to one side, and actually he feels partly responsible for his son growing up without a mother.

"So there's quite a nice kind of juxtaposition with the way Lachlan's feeling with not wanting her to wake up, and Robert, who didn't like her before, being the one who really wants her to wake up. It's quite a nice dynamic."

Asked whether Rebecca could ever make peace with Robert in the future, Emily replied: "I honestly couldn't say. We haven't shot anything that would suggest that, because Rebecca has been in a coma. I don't know how she'd feel about him if she ever did wake up.

"I do think that she hasn't seen this side of Robert, the caring side of him, in a very long time. But I think she'd probably be more concerned than anything else, about the fact that Seb is now with the one person that she wanted to get him away from."